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The US horror-writer girlfriend of Hollywood filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has been accused of plagiarising dozens of reviews by other critics for a regular column. Lianne MacDougall, who uses the pen-name Lianne Spiderbaby reportedly copied material by writers for Empire magazine, Critical-Film.com and HighDefDigest.com among others, for a column titled "Spiderbaby's Terror Tapes" on the FEARnet site.

Quentin Tarantino’s violent slavery revenge fantasy “Django Unchained” will be released in China in May, its US distributors said on Friday, and a Hollywood source said additional cuts had been made after Chinese authorities halted the film’s initial rollout this month.

Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained is an equivocal affair. It graphically depicts the horrors of slavery, while at the same time revelling in them in an exploitative B-movie fashion. Its dialogue is often witty and there are some clever, unexpected plot reversals.

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Hollywood guru Dov Simens, 63, claims to be able to teach people in two days how to make a feature film. Graduates of his movie- making crash course, which comes to Hong Kong this weekend, include director Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee and Will Smith

Quentin Tarantino kicked off the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday by praising Hong Kong's film industry - and, by omission, putting down Britain. 'There are only three countries in the world with sustainable film industries - America, India and Hong Kong,' the director was quoted by British newspapers as saying.